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Health equity
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Webcast can help you report on the impact of disparities on the pandemic
A growing body of data indicates that COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting both communities of color and vulnerable populations such as…
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Webcast to explore the high cost of failing to cover the uninsured during pandemic
Leaving anyone uninsured during this viral pandemic increases the risk of spreading the disease. A warning report on Monday from…
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Reporter explores impact of medical credit cards on dental debt
Dental patients in need of costly procedures may turn to medical credit cards to pay for the services. But these…
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Freelance reporter reveals challenges in Georgia’s inmate health care
For more than a year, Atlanta-based freelance journalist and AHCJ member Max Blau investigated the troublesome health care delivery in jails across…
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COVID-19 is hitting older LGBTQ adults especially hard
The coronavirus pandemic has put the LGBTQ community at increased risk for severe illness and death if they develop COVID-19.…
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Ask the experts: What do you want to know about COVID-19?
The COVID-19 pandemic is quickly evolving and finding up-to-date answers to questions from experts has been challenging for many journalists.…
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AHCJ announces winners of 2019 health journalism contest
Investigations into flawed or corrupt health-care practices won many of the top honors in the Association of Health Care Journalists’…
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Report details unmet needs of older adults living with HIV/AIDS
At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, those with the disease typically only lived a few years…
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Reporter looks at how diseases of poverty flourish in the U.S.
Neglected tropical diseases, a group of parasitic, bacterial and viral infectious diseases that primarily affect the poorest countries in the…
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Report shows health insurers are failing to comply with mental health parity laws
A recent report indicates that health insurers are failing to comply with mental health parity laws for people with employer-sponsored…